'It is not possible to be both a Jew and a Christian': Converso religious identity and the inquisitorial trial of Custodio Nunes (1604-5)
'It is not possible to be both a Jew and a Christian': Converso religious identity and the inquisitorial trial of Custodio Nunes (1604-5)
This work analyses the previously unedited inquisitorial trial of Custodio Nunes, a converso who lived in the Portuguese town of vora and who was put on trial for crypto-Judaism by the Portuguese Inquisition in 1604-5. Custodio Nunes was accused by the Inquisition of being a crypto-Jew, but defended himself, somewhat remarkably, by claiming that he was both a Jew and a Christian. This article will examine the manner in which the trial of Custodio Nunes brings to light problems of religious identity within the converso communities of Spain and Portugal, and the problems of using inquisitorial trial dossiers as historical evidence.
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Soyer, Franois
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2011
Soyer, Franois
3ccef83c-fad6-46be-b6a0-300d69a30528
Soyer, Franois
(2011)
'It is not possible to be both a Jew and a Christian': Converso religious identity and the inquisitorial trial of Custodio Nunes (1604-5).
Mediterranean Historical Review, 26 (1), .
(doi:10.1080/09518967.2010.536670).
Abstract
This work analyses the previously unedited inquisitorial trial of Custodio Nunes, a converso who lived in the Portuguese town of vora and who was put on trial for crypto-Judaism by the Portuguese Inquisition in 1604-5. Custodio Nunes was accused by the Inquisition of being a crypto-Jew, but defended himself, somewhat remarkably, by claiming that he was both a Jew and a Christian. This article will examine the manner in which the trial of Custodio Nunes brings to light problems of religious identity within the converso communities of Spain and Portugal, and the problems of using inquisitorial trial dossiers as historical evidence.
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Published date: 2011
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